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Page 4AThe Battalion/Tuesday, September 8, 1987 FLY MORE PAY LESS EXECUTIVE AIRCRAFT SERVICES OF TEXAS INC. EASTERWOOD AIRPORT HAS: NO MEMBERSHIP FEE NO MONTHLY DUES ACFT Rental Rates Starting at 846-3591 28 00 / HR ALPHA KAPPA PSI NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS FRATERNITY OPEN TO ALL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS MAJORS (BOTH MEN & WOWEN) PROUDLY ANNOUNCES ITS 1987 FALL RUSH INFORMAL RUSH CASUAL RUSH PICNIC FORMAL RUSH TUESDAY,SEPT. 8 7:00p.m. THURSDAY, SEPT. 10 V-OOpjn. SUNDAY, SEPT. 13 4:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY,SEPT. 16 7:00 p.m. ROOM 203 ZACHARY ROOM 203 ZACHARY HENSEL PARK BRAZOS CENTER TAKE A STEP INTO THE FUTURE TODAY! WELCOME BACK. AGGIES! Computers, Etc. invites you to take a short step into thefuture. And what will the future look like? Well, we have a Professor of Computer Science on the staff who might be able to answer that question. "Harrumph," says the Professor. "As I have often told my students, if aviation technology had kept pace with computer technology, we would have 747's that would cost $5, and fly around the world in a second on a teaspoon of gas. Projecting the consistent gains of the past, it is quite apparent that the future holds even higher tech nology at an even lower cost." So there you have it. Higher tech and lower cost. What Computers, Etc. has been doing over the sum mer is preparing to introduce our new high tech, low costline RIGHT NOW. We call the series our MB (Me- daBute) line, since each system has a CPU with a me gabyte of memory ALL ON THE MOTHER BOARD; also, a slim line case with RESET and TURBO buttons and a full array of status LED's, 1 SOWatt power supply, two 360KB disc drives, a high resolution monitor with a tilt/swivel base, and an AT-style keyboard. (Of course, we can custom configure a system in any manner to suite your particular needs at the lowest possible cost.) Although outwardly similar, each machine has quite individual specs. Leading off, we have a revamped XT/MB system at only $749.00. Not only is this an XT with a meg of memory, but it runs at a turbo speed of 10MHz with a V20-10 processor, giving it an SI rating of 3.2 times the speed of the IBM PC. Another exclusive feature is its AT style built-in battery clock/calendar to automatically load the time and date at bootup I Next in line, we have an outstanding machine: the 286AT/MB at $899.00. This is a genuine AT compati ble system with all the works! 80286 processor at 8MHz, 7.7 SI, 80287 socket, six 16bit slots - a real AT system - $899.00. VAROOM! Finishing off the series is the jewel you've probably only heard about until now: the 386AT/MB system at $1799.00, with an 18.3 SI. This one has an 80386 processor and an 80387 ($500.00 option) socket. Mainframe performance at less than what my Apple II + cost only 5 years ago! , So there you have them. The three units that will set the standard for computer performing excellence at TAMU this year. Naturally, we still have the "classic compatibles" available at an even greater savings than ever before. We at Computers, Etc. hope that you have enjoyed sharing this brief trip into the future, and we eagerly in vite you over for a test drive. Aren't you glad you waited until you could make an in formed choice? FREE REFILLS Purchase the Refillable Cup full of your favorite soft drink and we'll REFILL IT FREE with any food pur chase This School Year offer good only at Northgate Pizza Hut Pizza -Hut mk \ a-v:.-.?. 846-3278 501 University Dr. Free Refill b cup quantities are limited Battalion Classified 845-2611 2 researchers discovei ‘diamond-like’ materiel Substance may help electronics, defense IH I HOUSTON (AP) — Two Univer sity of Houston researchers have dis covered a new way to make a “di amond-like” material in films only a few atoms thick that ultimately could be used in electronics and defense. After several years of work, Wayne Rabalais and research asso ciate Srinandan Kasi have found a way to create small circular patches of the material. By every possible test, the material being manufactured has the prop erties of the diamond, but the scien tists only claim the material is “di amond-like.” The diamond, prized for its beauty, also is excellent as a heat conductor and electrical insulator. Transistors and miniature electronic circuits built on diamond films do not need large, bulky cooling devices to keep from overheating. Diamond, a crystalline form of carbon, can be made by squeezing carbon under high pressure and high temperature. But the tiny di amonds made through the process are not suitable for the thin needed for electrohics and dele Rabalais’ and Kasi’s process with a carbon-rich gas. The ; are then separated with elect and series of magnets and vac pumps remove everything bu carbon. An electrical charge speed carbon atoms to a target whet atoms bond and form diamond tals, the Houston ChronicU ported Monday. "We first saw this on nil kle, we tried various other metals then tried gold,” Rabalais s.iic we could do it on gold we could on anything. And it worked.” The two Houston reseat now want to add other materi. the carbon, a process by wh sistors and electronic chips ated. Transistors are so quii stroyed by heat that for m they must be bolted to hunks of heat-absorbing ah Rabalais said diamond-film film tors shoulc md start; itOITl! tricit) cuurr it the r tern te de electronic: SARAC .< XS to haiidl volunteers g ires. Ihau s te;id of ham closeb faster Tht 1 h< t>e pad .iking to >f diamon ch in diam films also a ti ng and kinds of i. “II do ii h ti kb efforts conti West Texas < by . spring to KMore than Bajitist Men h the Labor Da rebuild more Clpwe, spokes Red Cross in J he week with earlier h byjthe Menm and other c! transformed v panse of grou ? “ 1 his morn save a street c said. “Virtual! night those he fort your eyes Man stands with wife in trio despite murder plot rumor SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A man who federal author ities said was the intended target of a contract put out by his wife is expected to be at her side when sentence is pronounced this week. Carolyn Sue Huebner’s attorney says the contract was put out in a moment of mental confusion and a jail sentence wouldn’t be an appropriate punishment. Mrs. Huebner pleadeef guilty in July to a two-count indictment in connection with the murder-for-hire scheme. She could get up to T'/z years in prison when sentenced Wednesday in New Orleans. During a telephone interview from his New Orleans office, George Simno III told the San Antonio Light, “I see no earthly reason why a jail sentence would be ap propriate in this case.” live with 1 $5,000 p< Simno wife at th thejudge Huebn Energy C Mi Mi Federal officials claimed Mrs. Huebner, 29, gave a Gretna, La., man a $500 down payment on a $10,000 contract to kill her husband, Larry, on May 24 as the couple walked in the French Quarter. But the purported hit man, who has not been identi fied, was an FBI informant who told officials of the plot, officials said. The FBI said the $500 down payment was made with money withdrawn from an account of Texas Child Search Inc.,, a non-profit organization based in San An tonio and founded by Mrs. Huebner. Larry Huebner, meanwhile, said he has forgiven his wife, reaffirmed his love for her and has continued to Simno killed w He $ San Antonio ma daughter. He said the n who was workin ney’s office, and County officials Huebner agreed The woman b Mrs. Huebner "< other gentleman Simno said t working with ab to do with the i make the transfe Once nominal tonio, Mrs. Ffu< from the district was arrested by 1 Mrs. her c led in her re s two weeks b New Orleans Musicians, townfolk find fun, good times at roadside laundry 5 rescued after boat capsizes Labe I (AP) — weekend of flocking to while others workers’ hoi construction nado-ravagei I In West volunteers w building moi Saragosa, wh tened by a M ■ Volunteer Men began planned to Monday. T with those agencies wa area, Ame spokesman S a In South was reported veston Mond jVantage to g time during l epd. 1 Elsewhere sk ies didn’t tional picnic outings celel from school a || In Dallas, people turne River bottom works, live m show. ffi Other Dal eluded the 1 bration in do’ free street d Western nigh AZLE (AP) — Every Friday night, retired delivery man Don Watson tosses his acoustic guitar on the back seat of his car and heads for the laundry. Before long, he’ll be joined by dozens of mostly middle-aged, work ing-class musicians toting fiddles and mandolins, not to mention wives, lawn chairs and maybe a grandchild or two. Sometime during the evening, for a half-hour or so, they’ll be stars in their own right, belting out country classics at Mar shall Holmes’ Coin-O-Madc. For nearly 27 years, homegrown musicians and their fans have gath ered every week at Holmes’ coin-op erated laundry, dubbed simply “the washateria” by its regulars. Some of the players are among the 20 or 30 bands that take turns on a rough wooden stage next to the dry-cleaning machines, while others, too bashful to perform before the microphones, gather out back for impromptu jam sessions in the dusty parking lot. It’s a far cry from the lounges and roadhouses that line the 20-mile stretch of Jacksboro Highway that links Fort Worth and Azle, popula tion 8,000. Here, there aren’t any bouncers or beer brawls or tearful laments over cheatin’ sweethearts — except in song. At the washateria, smoking is banned and the headiest brew avail able is a cup of scalding coffee from an urn occupying a laundry-folding table. Music is the only reason the people come. “The players don’t want to play honky-tonks and these old people, they don’t want to go to bars,” Wat son’s wife, Pat, said, leaning against a Speed Queen and swaying to the strains of “Green, Green Grass of Home.” “They just come out here for the fun of it,” she said. Some have been coming faithfully since 1961, when 60-year-old Holmes, a genial, bear-sized man who serves as a host, master of cere monies and lead guitarist for the loosely knit house band, first invited a couple of pals over for an after- hours jam session when the washers were shut off for the day. Holmes, an ex-Marine and Fort Worth native whose work history in cludes running a filling station, working for an exterminating com pany and mining uranium ore in Colorado before he landed in the coin-operated laundry business, doesn’t make any money from the music business. His Friday night hoedowns are free and open to all.The weekly tra dition has been skipped fewer than half a dozen times — when Friday fell on a Christmas or once in obser vance of a band member’s death. For those who stop by on a Friday night, Holmes’ ground rules are sim ple: “There’s no drinking here, and out of respect for one of our bass players who just has one lung, there’s no smoking inside. “And another thing, we don’t al low off-color jokes. This is a place where you can bring your minister, you can bring your kids or bring your grandparents.” By the time darkness fell on a re cent Friday, a crowd of at least 300 had gathered, despite the sweltering heat. Inside, people seated in lawn chairs tapped their feet and clapped along with the music, while others clustered around the shyer groups offering informal performances out side. By midnight, most of the kids and a few of the grown-ups had nodded off; others shoved back the chairs in side and two-stepped around the washing machines. Some were content to sit outside, humming along as a tall, lanky gui tarist identified by his hand-tooled guitar strap as “Peewee,” sang in a rich tenor voice: “This old rain is cold and slowly falling Upon my windowpane tonight. And tho’ your love is even colder, I wonder where you are tonight.” Janie Kinnard, 57, of White Set tlement, who shyly confesses that the steel guitarist playing along is her beau of seven years, said, “I’ve got to punch in at work by 2 a.m. “But I wouldn’t miss coming out here for anything. It may not look like much, but we all have one big time.” PENSACOLA, Fla. (APH people beat off pilot fish, headed scavengers thai accompany sharks, befortl rescued from the Gulf of J more than seven hoursafiol boat capsized and sank. * The four men and one4 who had been on a Sail scuba-diving excursion, J(| life jackets and grabbed | wiches, flares and flashltjlj fore the 22-foot boat went] about 6‘/2 miles southwest'] Pensacola Pass after bei»?i sized by a huge wave, Bot>| erts, a Coast Guard spotfif said. Currents carried them] 14 miles out before theS? boat Anticipation plucked?- from the water at about 4 CDT, he said. Bill Robertson of PeK* the boat’s owner, said in an? view Sunday that they ' (fi d bothered by sharks but wt| rassed by pilot fish, which suckers atop their heads i' l! onto sharks for a free ride. | “They didn’t bite bull drove us crazy,” Robertson! said.“They’re not killers bed were attaching themselves le s s - J “We had to beat ’em off : Also rescued were Rand'! sey, 31, of Dallas; his wifej| also 31; Andy Mountz, 3!j Terry Evans, 32, both of* etta, Ga. Robertson said the 1^1 started around noon WOT boat got turned in the wro| rection and big waves c4 into the craft. “When we went do#| grabbed everything we coul| jackets, Gatorade, Gheetosl sandwiches,” Robertson \ “That’s what we drank and| day.” He and Mountz tried W to shore to summon help® others, hut the strong ci» dragged them farther the Gulf. “What did 1 learn fronul perience?” Robertson asktff going to start going to regular.” Rich Meet 845- Rich Econ 845- Jami Anim 845- Geot Biocl 845- Mich Econ 845-' Sue I Heall 845- Jam< Math 845-i ChrU Educ 845-‘ Jon I Engir 845- Walti Meet 845-' Mayr Educ 845-i Jamc Ocea 845-C Scotl Veter 845-J Caml Healt 845-C Mich Interc 845-4 Jon E Ecom 845-7 John Marki 845-2 Jack Educ 845-fi Andy Electi 845-7